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Boston Classical Orchestra: BCO Soloists Showcase "Handel's Judas Maccabaeus Overture," Bach's "Suite No. 2," Beethoven's "Romance in F," Mozart: "Sinfonia Concertante." 551 Tremont St. Call 423-3883 or Ticketmaster at 931-2000 for tickets...
Harvard University Choir--performs Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. Memorial Church, 8 p.m. $8 general; $5 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office...
...short-lived independence that Judas Maccabaeus ripped from the dying body of the Hellenistic Empire in the 2nd Century B.C. seemed to Finkelstein one of the great failures in Jewish history; so, he felt, would be a modern state established by force. Moreover, if U.S. Jews put as much effort into getting D.P.s admitted to the U.S. as they put into Zionism, he thought, a home could be found in the New World for all the dispossessed Jews of Europe...
...composer of Handel's immense stature should be the author of only one work which has "lived." His prolific and unfailing genius produced, in a lifespan of 74 years, an amazing amount of organ and harpsichord music, 46 operas, and such oratorios as "Israel in Egypt," "Semele," and "Judas Maccabaeus," all of which have been almost completely neglected. Perhaps even "The Messiah" would have disappeared had it not become an accustomed ritual of Christmas...
...changed during intermission to bright blue breeches, shiny riding boots and an opened-neck shirt with wings on the pocket. In his first regalia he was an earnest formal concert artist, exhibiting his smooth ingratiating voice at its best in a long sustained aria from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus. Worthy also of the imposing Crawford sideburns was Bach's My Peace I Give Unto You, in which he was solemnly assisted by a group of youthful choristers from St. Thomas Church...